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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: Perl-4.036? Message-ID: <michaelv.747505283@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 16:21:23 GMT Lines: 23 In <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, >Alex Tang <altitude@recycle.snre.umich.edu> wrote: >>Hi. Has anybody ported perl-4.036 ( or at least gotten the thing to build?) >>for Net/386/FreeBSD? >Works like a champ under FreeBSD, has for a LONG time. As a matter of >fact, my upgrade tools use a dumped perl script to convert the passwd >file to the new crypt function or DES crypt from the old plain-text >crypt. >(though perl also fail the db tests, for reasons explained in a followup >article) I've been running perl 4.036 on my NetBSD system for ages. If it's not already out there somewhere, I can put it on ftp.iastate.edu. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------